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wj weather indications |& Chicago and vicinity fair Â£ a v saturday probably becoming un y-.jj v settled sunday rising temperature ajjtf j fresh to brisk southerly winds flf vol vi no 90 a m saturday april 4 1908 14 pages exsitwtdjd ft stands for examiner situa a tion wanted ad if you are j3 looking for work try them k it pays a price one cent d , e o ll * er ! a ** c 1 s tti "- 30 cents per month russian lion quits gotch declared winner by walter linn hackenschmidi tires after 2 hours and 1 minute and surrenders title greatest bout of age lowan's wonderful endurance and his agility too much for the foreigner great crowd goes mad police protect new champion from harm at hands of his admirers dexter park pavilion chi cago april 4 â€” frank gotch a young lowan was awarded the world's cham pionship as a wrestler at 12:30 o'clock this morning after he had struggled for two hours with the hitherto un beaten george hackensehmidt other wise known as the russian lion although not actually put upon his shoulders as the rule of this ancient game requires hackensehmidt an nounced to the refer.ee as he lay pant ing upon his stomach that he sur rendered the championship of the world it was the greatest contest between wrestlers since the days of the unde feated muldoon and it was fought be fore a crowd that filled every seat m the dexter park amphitheater down m the stock yards district where fine animals are appreciated 1 5,000 see contest fifteen thousand persons squeezed into the immense building and they watched the maneuvers of the modem gladiators with as fierce a joy as though they had lived m the days of the gladiators and were m a roman amphitheater instead of a Chicago rid ing academy nearly every member of the board of aldermen and nearly every public official of the city and scores of prom inent men and even fifty or sixty fash ionably dressed women who rode up to the entrance m their private car riages watched the contest which will be described to-day m every news paper m the world as the principals m the last preliminary left the ring came gotch m a purple bath robe followed uy his seeomls carrying an american flag which was thrown over the ropes m his corner of the ring a wild cheer went up and gotch smiled close behind him was the russian lion wearing a brown bath robe looking cool and col lected he was warmly welcomed too as 0 wrestler who has shown he world that he is a man to be reckoned with m a triai of strength the men stood m their corners with their seconds and smiled at the photograpiiers who were permitted to enter the ring be fore he bout began their splendidly trained nerves enabled them to face delay without impatience when a world's championship hung m the balance and ir>,o;k pairs of eyes were feasting on them out of the gloom of the arena when they shook hands and stood to gether for a picture chatting and laughing with each other it was the signal for an other outburst crowd grows impatient that's enough roared the crowd get out of there it is half-past ten blood was running faster now and hearts throbbed hard the fever was on the ring was cleared and smith introduced the men for bows of applause they were not fierce and savage m their attitude as the lesser lights had been but seemed to re gard the bout as a thing not worth worry ing about or getting angry over as they threw off their bathrobes and sparred for position m the middle of the ring there was an expression of admira tion from the spectators the mighty hackenac mult furnished with muscles hint might have served for a horse waited patiently and circled around gotch looking fow.au opening his patience even more than his strength seemed to break the nerve of the anierieau who darted forward from time to time pulling down the head of the hussian with the apparent desire to irritate him and cause lilni to close m hack dreadfully businesslike nor even a smile from hackensehmidt not i fpjwii net a tieinor not a line about i'm month to iudlc.ate that his pulse beat young Chicago eloper | telegrams tell tale of girl who goes shopping and elopes to buffalo seventeen-year-old miss weil of chi cago met half-way by baltimore youth surprises parents will you come to buffaio and be mar ried when can you start v answer hahuy leave to-morrow morning meet me sure leah we are married and happy be liome saturday leah and haruy these three telegrams tell the story of a romantic marriage between pretty leah weil tho seventeen-year-old daughter of henry aveil a lawyer living at 948 wal nut street ami harry myers son of a wealthy jeweler of baltimore sid the tirst two telegrams were sent on wednes day the marriage took place m the par lors of the iroqnoiÃŸ hotel m buffalo late thursday evening the telegram to the bride's parents m Chicago was received the same evening myers met his bride half way he came from baltimore for the wedding she irom Chicago tin young Chicago girl has been ac quainted with the man whose bride she now is for more than a year he had asked her parents for her hand there was no objection save that of the youthfulness of the girl it was suggested that they wait a year and then lie married but young love was impatient the elopement followed miss weil left her home thursday morn ing early ostensibly on a shopping ex pedition once downtown she telephoned her mother that she would not be home until afternoon announcing her inteution of going to a matinee instead she hurried to the station and took a train for buffalo her disappearance caused consternation m the weil household the telegram from buffalo was a great surprise the parents of the young bride have for given her and will receive bride and bride groom with open arms when they arrive in tlie city to-day riley grannan noted turf plunger dead man who bet 170,000 on one race once a bellboy reno xev april 3 rilcy grannan the noted turf plunger who bet 170,000 ou henrj of hararre m a match race tvith domino the largest wifger ever placed ou a race track at sheepaaead bay m 1892 died to-day of pneumonia m itawhide irauuau had been ill less than a week he was taken sick while visiting san fran cisco and returning to his ganidling house m the sevada gold camp became suddenly worse a staff of physicians hurried to itawhide by automobile but failed to re lieve him qrannan's home was paris ky the body will be taken there for burial the doted plunger was a bellboy m louisville when lie began making book he won 150,000 during his brat year ou the track grannan left no property but has interests m games here black hand threaten n y produce exchange new york april 3 the members ot the produce exchange became excited to day when it was learned that w h trafton a promlaent member had received a black hand letter threatening to blow ip the exchange by monday if mr trafton or other members fail to pay 1,000 by to morrow night the etter is written m italian ami demands that the money be placed m the street m the rear of the ex change between ti anl 8 o'clock saturday night or violence will follow the letter was decorated with two red designs of skull and crossbones which had been clipped and pasted on it was signed black hand deneen taken sick in Chicago hastens home governor charles s i'eneen is ill again in springfield tlioucli he himself denies the attack is serious he was taken sick late yesterday afternoon nt the annex where he had gone to mccl secretary Taft the jinernor had been m the city all day con ferdihk with political associates and bad just gone to iue hotel he expected i in.ikc a ten-minute speech at the hamilton dun banquet inside m the close air how ever his stoniei rebelled nnd lie con lmlit<l to go hotu t springfield taking hie bt2o train n reached bprlugfleld at 11:13 and said his illness was only billious slain by bandits as he battles fob society's funds three men hold up mine offi cers and two members of building association treasurer is shot down grabs money box from rob bers as they try to flee with it milwaukee wls april 3 nine of ficers and two stockholders of the skarb sobreski building and loan association in session to-night were held up by three rob bers who killed the treasurer and made off with the money box containing the so ciety's funds in an effort to recover the money box treasurer dominic gopinski was shot m the head anj instantly killed no other shots were fired the robbery and murder took place at 11 o'clock to-night m the meeting hall below the mitchell street savings bank no trace of the robbers has been found though the police have a good description of them robbery well planned the robbery which terminated m a mur der was well planned ' only the officers and two stockholders were m the room when the three men entered the officers were frank muehta president michael szynebarski vice president gaplnski frank poznanski corresponding secretary s matemanski recording secretary and michael tomaszewski michael anczak john pszikieez and vincent lewansowski trustees the officers were counting money on the table and writing receipts gapinski was making out a receipt for michael salaty 742 mitchell street who stood by his side they were not aware of the presence of the murderers until one of them shouted m polish hands up sit down and be quiet covered by revolvers gapinski did not hear the warning and qajfitimied to write the others looked up and found themselves staring into two re volvers held by two of the men stationed m the middle of the room the third who was not armed made for the middle of the table and hurriedly grabbed the money he made several thrusts each time placing money m his pockets this process apparently was too slow and he picked up the entire box and made for the doorway at this juncture gapinski became aware of the presence of the three and jump ing from the chair he ran toward the door way where the three robbers had assem bled you can't have that money it belongs to us he said this is no joke what's the matter with you fellows grabs money box from robber the robbers became confused and didn't remember that the door opens inward while scrambling to open it gapinski reached them and made a grab for the box he had his hand on it when one of the men grabbed him by the shoulder to push him backward at the same time placing his revolver on the treasurer's forehead and firing gapinski fell instantly . some officials ran to the man's aid while some bounded up the steps and gave chase to the fleeing robbers but were distanced by the trio the report of the shooting spread rapidly and hundreds of poles flocked to the scene wliile it is believed that the robbers were amateurs they did not desire the checks and threw them away before they reached the top of the stairway seven checks amounting to 176.25 were found on the stairway a short time after the shooting emanuel wronikowski sixteen years old ill mitch ell street entered the basement with the iiox which had been thrown away he found it on fifth avenue one-half block from the meeting place all told 05.40 had been taken m by the officers from 400 members of this amount the men dropped 17(>.2."i m checks and abandoned the box with 17.70 m it the trio left 20 in gold on the table and dropped 1 during the excitement thf society is an organization doing business among the polish residents of the city its officers l&ect every tuesday ami friday nights to receive weekly pay ments on stock held by members capitalists decide to put the erie in receiver's rands the poor erie is gone says one of new york's great est financiers harriman still fighting crash will mean upheaval m bank loans throughout â– the country new yokk april 3 the fate of the erie was settled to-day and the verdict is receivership . according to the most au ttentlc information of the financial world directors of the railroad bankers for the company and officials identified with its management made strenuous denials but the fact can be stated without qualification formal announcement is expected next week after word is received from j pler pont morgan who is now m europe it is not believed he can avert the crash information of the erie receivership is based on the fact that one of the first twelve ricliest men iv new york city said so he did not give out the information for publication but he will go short of erie stock at the opening of the market to morrow if the name of the man could be used nobody would hesitate to accept the information as true bnt m spite of the knowledge that the financial interests upon whom he has been depending have decided to stand aside and let the crash come e h har riman was still struggling to-night to save the road harriman holds 3,000,000 m bonds harriman personally is said to be more heavily interested in erie securities than any one person it was harriman who arranged for a loan of 3,000,000 when the erie needed cash this is the very loan whose maturity is now causing receiver ship because harriman is carrying about 3,000,000 of this burden himself and is willing to extend the time of payment and because banking institutions friendly to him hold most of the remain ing 2,000,000 he has practically given his word that there will be no receiver ship but he has apparently acted with out consultation with the big interests that usually stanj behind him some members of the house of morgan are also trying to save the erie morgan & co have put hundreds of investors into erie stocks and bonds the younger mem bers of the firm want to protect erie as a matter of personal pride but j p morgan is understood to take a neutral position await word from morgan the last message has been sent to mor gan by cable but his answer is not ex pected to help matters the poor erie is gone said the ex aminer's informant this has been agreed upon by the directors and while mr har riman is making an effort and thinks he may yet save the day i am so sure that he will not that i have instructed a rela tive of mine to go short of the stock and use the profits m a little instutitiou that i am interested in one of those institu tions through which we folk like to think we are helping to better our fellow man directors of the erie held no meeting to day because mr harriman insists upou making one more effort to save the prop erty just before the time for the meet ing telephone messages were sent to all the directors notifying them tbat it would not be held but that they would be in formed when to come to headquarters huge volume of securities out receivership for the erie will mean an upheaval of bank loans m all parts of the united states the company has such an enormous volume of securities outstanding that they have fouud their way into every bank m the country and a receivership will of course force a revision of all loans m which they appear as collateral when j p morgan reorganized the erie he wanted to scale down the securities but harriman opposed him successfully am won the enmity of the great banker har riman's plea now for the erie is that a re ceivership will destroy the bond market and perhaps make necessary the receiver ship of other railroads so you want a good position are you competent if so file your appli cation at the examiner employment exchange 70 waehing-ton street * bliss galls ryan's campaign gift story false absurd 588,000 is large sum and i would have heard of it ' democrats are amazed traction man fighting indict ment also contradicted by p a widenerandt dolan new york april 3 for the first time since the scandals in connection with the contributions to the national campaign funds of 1900 and 1904 became aired through the insurance investigations cor nelius n bliss the treasurer of the repub lican national campaign committee to night was provoked to a statement by the alleged contention of thomas fortune ryan that the 558,000 distributed in con nection with the notorious wall and cort landt street railroad ferries deal had been contributed to the campaign committee towards the election of president mckin ley mr bliss denied unequivocally and pos itively that any such contribution had been received either by him or the repub lican campaign committee ddiring that year when seen by a representative of the examiner he said the whole story is absurd impossible such a thing could not have occurred you may have forgotten it suggested the reporter sir retorted mr bliss 500,000 ms a large amount of money i would have heard of this had any such thing occurred and i never had any hint of it until i took up the paper just now and read this story yon understand that it is told now to explain the wall and cortlandt street fer ries deal said the reporter remarkable story says bliss oh yes said mr bliss it is quite a remarkable story and a rather belated explanation sug gested the reporter i should say sol exclaimed mr bliss do you recall whether mr ryan or mr whitney or any of the gentlemen named in connection with this deal made contribu tions to the 1900 campaign mr bliss was asked i didn't see any of them was the reply and i might not know of in dividual cases but this affair tapping the paper why i never dreamed of such a thing cnn you recall any contributions made to that campaign which might be identified as this one xo i cannot can you recall any circumstances which in any way might suggest now that this contribution was made as explained by mr ryan's friends i cannot said mr bliss it is im possible absurd he repeated i can't understand why such a story is told and i am almost inclined to believe that tjge story has not been told under oath to the grand jury but if this is the story that has been told all that i can say is that it is absolutely untrue ryari bubble is exploded thus in the first interview which he has ever given on campaign contributions mr blim exploded the bubble tale of cam paign contribution to the republican party brought forward to save thomas ryan from the indictment in connection with the looting of the metropolitan se curities company by the ferries deal so fully exposed in the testimony of anthony x brady before the public utilities com mission the explanation in favor of mr ryan of a 558,000 contribution an unheard of fig ure in campaign contributions was too bit ter a dose to be taken in silence by mr bliss one of the first results of the expose of the remarkable explanation evolved in de fense of mr ryan and advanced to the grand jm-y now investigating the looting of th metropolitan company was a tre mendous sei'sacion in both local and na tional democratic circles men who have been accustomed to think of william c whitney as a stanch demo crat and to regard thomas f ryan as a power in the party as now organized were amazed at the effrontery of such an ex planation at this iate hour another serious obstacle in the way of acceptance of the explanation of campaign contributions in connection with the wall and cortlandt street ferries deal was brought to light to-day by reference to the action of p a b widener and thomas dolnn who shared with uyan whitney and klkins the 358.oi!0 profits on the deal immediately after it had been exposed by the ifstiniiiiiy ol bi'jnly widener and dolan explain wmener and dolan prior to the discon certing rrady exposures under examina tion by william m ivins had for a year or two been on bad terms mid had severed all relation klkins the third of the philadelphia group was dead hut the moment that tie true history of the deai was exposed dolan and widener decided io get together and make mi explanation of the cheeks for 111,052.78 that each hnd received from isrady after the paper road had been sold to the metropolitan com pany at an enormous price this explanation was hint each of the lli.tki2.78 checks represented the payment of separate l<Â»ms of shxuxxi made to will iam c whitney in hkpii with interest hi the date of payment may 22 lixrj xh odd sjturea iu the checks were flitured as interest mr whitney died in 1!io4 hi i face tln explanation seemed plnus i â– :â€¢â– enough but if it whs true it must also '"â€¢ true that on the very srme iln.v mr whitney lion-owed tlic same amount from mr uynn ami from himself as he bor rowed from bis three philadelphia asso ciates as brady made nut tlje checks for eviictiy tie sump amount and one was made out in the imine of thomas f ryan and one to the or r of william c f whitney jfo further effort at explanation was mads thomas f ryan withholds charges to aid yates boom chester chaplain refuses to give investigators pamphlet criticising ex-governor chester 111 april 3 chaplain w h rntledge was a witness before the legisla tive committee investigating the state peni tentiary here to-day he refused to pro duce for the committee's inspection by advice of his attorney a pamphlet he had written entitled some of the objections to the parole law m which ne made charges of mismanagement against the prison's officials while richard yates now a candidate for governor was the state chief executive jy.bfia fcÂ«i by chair man hill if he refused to prtxl.uee the book for fear it would injure sometio^y's polit ical candidacy the venerable chaptain re plied i suppose so \ answering representative manny's ques tion chaplain rutledge said he had with drawn the pamphlet from circulation aft\r promising governor yates and c e snivov ly vho was then a member of the par don board to do so and that he had also wrltteo an apology to the pardon board for publishing it chaplalnnljiitledge said he gpÃŸwuiot re member whetn s 5r > jiiswife osls appointed organist at the penitentiary i(nm^qonths after or just before he withdrew thsbooif and apolglzed he testified that he paid her board before she was orfeanist but shej received 15 a mouth and board three year as organist he said he hiwl never p^u board for his daughter now nr&e years^ffd evelyn thaw sues hotel man for 50,000 libel declares she and e r thomas were not ejected from knickerbocker new vohk april 3 mrs florence evelyn s*ibit-thaw brought suit for 30,000 rl.'min?wfc^jaÂ±u^t jfljj b regan proprietor of tj|4 hoili ikukllfÃŸaujter to day for having caused to be publish m newspapers ai alleged libel m connectku with her vifeit to the grill room of tha hostelry e/rly tuesilay morning m com pany with e b thomas tie banker and horseman malinger regan s:im that he ordered thomas and mrs thaw to quit the hotel anil declared that he refused to serve j&em after he discovered the identity of tmt thiiw in her complaint mrs thaw adegm that she and mr thomas leftthe knickerbocker of their own accord and that manager he gan did not even suggest that they depart jarvis k iviott lost in blizzard in northwest searching parties seek young chi cago civil engineer st paul minn april 3 a lumber camp cook ole olson who left crookston minn with jarvis mott a Chicago civil engineer and electric railway porinotvr arrived m the former city to-day having lust his employer during the heavy snow storm that struck the north country tues day night olson wandered in hie trootft two days ami reached greenbusb in an exhausted condition koss was also n elpctrlc promoter and it is believcii he v,a looking i over that district f.i electric railway inter i ests of Chicago searching pa ties aiioait mailing are trying to hud him tie deep snow and density of the forest ills discoytfy a doubtful matter i police guard Taft as he makes two speeches chicago's presidential squad of detectives on watch Â„; for anarchistsi , , r j dodges talk of politics secretary addresses hamlttort club and immense gather Â« ing of church folk f spirited into the c(tv changes trains and passed through lines of bluecoatsr 7 ' on way to hotel secretary of war william h Taft slept in Chicago last night under the same police guard that ia given the president when he visits the city previously to going to his room he made two speeches under the protection of what hie police department calls the presiden tial squad of six detectives he wa3 brought into the city under police guatd in a mysterions fashion and foot and mounted officers lined h!s route from the la salle street station to the annex hotel where he stopped treated like heir apparent in every way mr tafr was treated as the heir apparent of president hoosevelt the elaborate police protection was the most conclusive evidence n * the character in which he .. . . . ilit7r^^j has visited Chicago frequently but ll come and son ; -< n ordinary aine^hi citizen 1'erhapd a united states secret service officer or two followed him in previous visits but that was all the presence of the police yesterday was not to prevent imijynnce from crowds the station at which the secretary was to arrive was a secret closely guarded from all except a few reporters and the police the train on which he came from columbus ran into the union station but he changed cars at washington heights and arrived at the lake shore station on lasalla street double line of police when the secretary arrived at the sta tion two lines of officers forty of them all told stretched from the train sheds to the door they presented their clubs as he was escorted between them sur rounding the motor car to take him to the hotel was a squad of mounted police and they saluted along the route to the hotel down la siiile street to jackson boulevard across jackson to michigan and thence to the hotel there were four officers at each crossing and two midway of each block the crowds hurrying homeward jnt 5 o'clock stopped to look at the police-j imen and wonder if it was a fire in charge of the pollice squad was the ischlcf's private secretary james markham r mr taft's two speeches might have been jconsidered those of an heir apparent an jheir apparent who is sure of his place they were safe sane and conservative claims the solid south ' the first was at the banquet of the chi cago baptist social union and dealt with the religious problems in the philippines at the second made at the appomattox day banquet of the hamilton club he was expected to talk about politics but he did not he only talked about twelve minutes what the secretary did in that time was to say some very complimentary things about alexander hamilton general grant and general lee and deliver the solid south to the republicans in the coming presidential campaign * on the tariff most of them the sonth evners are with us he said on expan sÂ§m most of them are with us on the itboscvelt policies most of them are with u and there he paused for thirty seconds 4i cheering flocks of silk tiles the reason the south did not go for ward as soon as the north did was be cause they allowed the ghosts of the past to govern their vnt.'s why they should have believed one tiling and voted another is one of the things i ilmi'i ninlevstnnd but i am hopeful there will soon u a change in that respc â– !," npon which words there was more cheering and the speaker sat down if mr Taft was guarded as the heir ap parent he was received in that fashion also Chicago has nol been so pllfc-hatted since mr uoobevell was here the last tluw as it was yesterday 1 was frock-eouted also for the event outside of toe reeeptiou committee of the commercial dull however it was not the old ran ;:.â– ! !.'â€¢â– <Â»* politicians who put or forma rulnieii and ut'iil fort n to grc?t il secretary mayor bn.-re was aor anting those prtfscoi who i*i<-:'.imi hi:n at the station or .-â– . tin elunilltou i"inh neither ,< ;> - govwuor dtmiiv i i eljaec ijiaee although ir Â«â– Â»â– ! liij :â– :.â– :, ..; ... .?. he got as far am ihn lintel nuil n:is ::' p:i 111 j he boarded a train for i.:.:-,;.j!j m faces most prominent were the nera r â– cicin i v p c ri on y th tsnp 1 fit c n i vu m n f republicans and f f democrats fuse j i j in the knowledge and belief that the results obtained i i from the examiner situation and help wanted ads are superior to all others there's a reasom advertisers m the examiner receive not only the . benefit of the largest newspaper circulation m the city but the free services of the examiner employ ment exchange which is the best known and most successful medium for the placement of help m Chicago if you are a first-class worker looking for work call to-day at the examiner employment exchange 70 washington street r i i ,-. - nzj

wj weather indications |& Chicago and vicinity fair Â£ a v saturday probably becoming un y-.jj v settled sunday rising temperature ajjtf j fresh to brisk southerly winds flf vol vi no 90 a m saturday april 4 1908 14 pages exsitwtdjd ft stands for examiner situa a tion wanted ad if you are j3 looking for work try them k it pays a price one cent d , e o ll * er ! a ** c 1 s tti "- 30 cents per month russian lion quits gotch declared winner by walter linn hackenschmidi tires after 2 hours and 1 minute and surrenders title greatest bout of age lowan's wonderful endurance and his agility too much for the foreigner great crowd goes mad police protect new champion from harm at hands of his admirers dexter park pavilion chi cago april 4 â€” frank gotch a young lowan was awarded the world's cham pionship as a wrestler at 12:30 o'clock this morning after he had struggled for two hours with the hitherto un beaten george hackensehmidt other wise known as the russian lion although not actually put upon his shoulders as the rule of this ancient game requires hackensehmidt an nounced to the refer.ee as he lay pant ing upon his stomach that he sur rendered the championship of the world it was the greatest contest between wrestlers since the days of the unde feated muldoon and it was fought be fore a crowd that filled every seat m the dexter park amphitheater down m the stock yards district where fine animals are appreciated 1 5,000 see contest fifteen thousand persons squeezed into the immense building and they watched the maneuvers of the modem gladiators with as fierce a joy as though they had lived m the days of the gladiators and were m a roman amphitheater instead of a Chicago rid ing academy nearly every member of the board of aldermen and nearly every public official of the city and scores of prom inent men and even fifty or sixty fash ionably dressed women who rode up to the entrance m their private car riages watched the contest which will be described to-day m every news paper m the world as the principals m the last preliminary left the ring came gotch m a purple bath robe followed uy his seeomls carrying an american flag which was thrown over the ropes m his corner of the ring a wild cheer went up and gotch smiled close behind him was the russian lion wearing a brown bath robe looking cool and col lected he was warmly welcomed too as 0 wrestler who has shown he world that he is a man to be reckoned with m a triai of strength the men stood m their corners with their seconds and smiled at the photograpiiers who were permitted to enter the ring be fore he bout began their splendidly trained nerves enabled them to face delay without impatience when a world's championship hung m the balance and ir>,o;k pairs of eyes were feasting on them out of the gloom of the arena when they shook hands and stood to gether for a picture chatting and laughing with each other it was the signal for an other outburst crowd grows impatient that's enough roared the crowd get out of there it is half-past ten blood was running faster now and hearts throbbed hard the fever was on the ring was cleared and smith introduced the men for bows of applause they were not fierce and savage m their attitude as the lesser lights had been but seemed to re gard the bout as a thing not worth worry ing about or getting angry over as they threw off their bathrobes and sparred for position m the middle of the ring there was an expression of admira tion from the spectators the mighty hackenac mult furnished with muscles hint might have served for a horse waited patiently and circled around gotch looking fow.au opening his patience even more than his strength seemed to break the nerve of the anierieau who darted forward from time to time pulling down the head of the hussian with the apparent desire to irritate him and cause lilni to close m hack dreadfully businesslike nor even a smile from hackensehmidt not i fpjwii net a tieinor not a line about i'm month to iudlc.ate that his pulse beat young Chicago eloper | telegrams tell tale of girl who goes shopping and elopes to buffalo seventeen-year-old miss weil of chi cago met half-way by baltimore youth surprises parents will you come to buffaio and be mar ried when can you start v answer hahuy leave to-morrow morning meet me sure leah we are married and happy be liome saturday leah and haruy these three telegrams tell the story of a romantic marriage between pretty leah weil tho seventeen-year-old daughter of henry aveil a lawyer living at 948 wal nut street ami harry myers son of a wealthy jeweler of baltimore sid the tirst two telegrams were sent on wednes day the marriage took place m the par lors of the iroqnoiÃŸ hotel m buffalo late thursday evening the telegram to the bride's parents m Chicago was received the same evening myers met his bride half way he came from baltimore for the wedding she irom Chicago tin young Chicago girl has been ac quainted with the man whose bride she now is for more than a year he had asked her parents for her hand there was no objection save that of the youthfulness of the girl it was suggested that they wait a year and then lie married but young love was impatient the elopement followed miss weil left her home thursday morn ing early ostensibly on a shopping ex pedition once downtown she telephoned her mother that she would not be home until afternoon announcing her inteution of going to a matinee instead she hurried to the station and took a train for buffalo her disappearance caused consternation m the weil household the telegram from buffalo was a great surprise the parents of the young bride have for given her and will receive bride and bride groom with open arms when they arrive in tlie city to-day riley grannan noted turf plunger dead man who bet 170,000 on one race once a bellboy reno xev april 3 rilcy grannan the noted turf plunger who bet 170,000 ou henrj of hararre m a match race tvith domino the largest wifger ever placed ou a race track at sheepaaead bay m 1892 died to-day of pneumonia m itawhide irauuau had been ill less than a week he was taken sick while visiting san fran cisco and returning to his ganidling house m the sevada gold camp became suddenly worse a staff of physicians hurried to itawhide by automobile but failed to re lieve him qrannan's home was paris ky the body will be taken there for burial the doted plunger was a bellboy m louisville when lie began making book he won 150,000 during his brat year ou the track grannan left no property but has interests m games here black hand threaten n y produce exchange new york april 3 the members ot the produce exchange became excited to day when it was learned that w h trafton a promlaent member had received a black hand letter threatening to blow ip the exchange by monday if mr trafton or other members fail to pay 1,000 by to morrow night the etter is written m italian ami demands that the money be placed m the street m the rear of the ex change between ti anl 8 o'clock saturday night or violence will follow the letter was decorated with two red designs of skull and crossbones which had been clipped and pasted on it was signed black hand deneen taken sick in Chicago hastens home governor charles s i'eneen is ill again in springfield tlioucli he himself denies the attack is serious he was taken sick late yesterday afternoon nt the annex where he had gone to mccl secretary Taft the jinernor had been m the city all day con ferdihk with political associates and bad just gone to iue hotel he expected i in.ikc a ten-minute speech at the hamilton dun banquet inside m the close air how ever his stoniei rebelled nnd lie con lmlit.2."i m checks and abandoned the box with 17.70 m it the trio left 20 in gold on the table and dropped 1 during the excitement thf society is an organization doing business among the polish residents of the city its officers l&ect every tuesday ami friday nights to receive weekly pay ments on stock held by members capitalists decide to put the erie in receiver's rands the poor erie is gone says one of new york's great est financiers harriman still fighting crash will mean upheaval m bank loans throughout â– the country new yokk april 3 the fate of the erie was settled to-day and the verdict is receivership . according to the most au ttentlc information of the financial world directors of the railroad bankers for the company and officials identified with its management made strenuous denials but the fact can be stated without qualification formal announcement is expected next week after word is received from j pler pont morgan who is now m europe it is not believed he can avert the crash information of the erie receivership is based on the fact that one of the first twelve ricliest men iv new york city said so he did not give out the information for publication but he will go short of erie stock at the opening of the market to morrow if the name of the man could be used nobody would hesitate to accept the information as true bnt m spite of the knowledge that the financial interests upon whom he has been depending have decided to stand aside and let the crash come e h har riman was still struggling to-night to save the road harriman holds 3,000,000 m bonds harriman personally is said to be more heavily interested in erie securities than any one person it was harriman who arranged for a loan of 3,000,000 when the erie needed cash this is the very loan whose maturity is now causing receiver ship because harriman is carrying about 3,000,000 of this burden himself and is willing to extend the time of payment and because banking institutions friendly to him hold most of the remain ing 2,000,000 he has practically given his word that there will be no receiver ship but he has apparently acted with out consultation with the big interests that usually stanj behind him some members of the house of morgan are also trying to save the erie morgan & co have put hundreds of investors into erie stocks and bonds the younger mem bers of the firm want to protect erie as a matter of personal pride but j p morgan is understood to take a neutral position await word from morgan the last message has been sent to mor gan by cable but his answer is not ex pected to help matters the poor erie is gone said the ex aminer's informant this has been agreed upon by the directors and while mr har riman is making an effort and thinks he may yet save the day i am so sure that he will not that i have instructed a rela tive of mine to go short of the stock and use the profits m a little instutitiou that i am interested in one of those institu tions through which we folk like to think we are helping to better our fellow man directors of the erie held no meeting to day because mr harriman insists upou making one more effort to save the prop erty just before the time for the meet ing telephone messages were sent to all the directors notifying them tbat it would not be held but that they would be in formed when to come to headquarters huge volume of securities out receivership for the erie will mean an upheaval of bank loans m all parts of the united states the company has such an enormous volume of securities outstanding that they have fouud their way into every bank m the country and a receivership will of course force a revision of all loans m which they appear as collateral when j p morgan reorganized the erie he wanted to scale down the securities but harriman opposed him successfully am won the enmity of the great banker har riman's plea now for the erie is that a re ceivership will destroy the bond market and perhaps make necessary the receiver ship of other railroads so you want a good position are you competent if so file your appli cation at the examiner employment exchange 70 waehing-ton street * bliss galls ryan's campaign gift story false absurd 588,000 is large sum and i would have heard of it ' democrats are amazed traction man fighting indict ment also contradicted by p a widenerandt dolan new york april 3 for the first time since the scandals in connection with the contributions to the national campaign funds of 1900 and 1904 became aired through the insurance investigations cor nelius n bliss the treasurer of the repub lican national campaign committee to night was provoked to a statement by the alleged contention of thomas fortune ryan that the 558,000 distributed in con nection with the notorious wall and cort landt street railroad ferries deal had been contributed to the campaign committee towards the election of president mckin ley mr bliss denied unequivocally and pos itively that any such contribution had been received either by him or the repub lican campaign committee ddiring that year when seen by a representative of the examiner he said the whole story is absurd impossible such a thing could not have occurred you may have forgotten it suggested the reporter sir retorted mr bliss 500,000 ms a large amount of money i would have heard of this had any such thing occurred and i never had any hint of it until i took up the paper just now and read this story yon understand that it is told now to explain the wall and cortlandt street fer ries deal said the reporter remarkable story says bliss oh yes said mr bliss it is quite a remarkable story and a rather belated explanation sug gested the reporter i should say sol exclaimed mr bliss do you recall whether mr ryan or mr whitney or any of the gentlemen named in connection with this deal made contribu tions to the 1900 campaign mr bliss was asked i didn't see any of them was the reply and i might not know of in dividual cases but this affair tapping the paper why i never dreamed of such a thing cnn you recall any contributions made to that campaign which might be identified as this one xo i cannot can you recall any circumstances which in any way might suggest now that this contribution was made as explained by mr ryan's friends i cannot said mr bliss it is im possible absurd he repeated i can't understand why such a story is told and i am almost inclined to believe that tjge story has not been told under oath to the grand jury but if this is the story that has been told all that i can say is that it is absolutely untrue ryari bubble is exploded thus in the first interview which he has ever given on campaign contributions mr blim exploded the bubble tale of cam paign contribution to the republican party brought forward to save thomas ryan from the indictment in connection with the looting of the metropolitan se curities company by the ferries deal so fully exposed in the testimony of anthony x brady before the public utilities com mission the explanation in favor of mr ryan of a 558,000 contribution an unheard of fig ure in campaign contributions was too bit ter a dose to be taken in silence by mr bliss one of the first results of the expose of the remarkable explanation evolved in de fense of mr ryan and advanced to the grand jm-y now investigating the looting of th metropolitan company was a tre mendous sei'sacion in both local and na tional democratic circles men who have been accustomed to think of william c whitney as a stanch demo crat and to regard thomas f ryan as a power in the party as now organized were amazed at the effrontery of such an ex planation at this iate hour another serious obstacle in the way of acceptance of the explanation of campaign contributions in connection with the wall and cortlandt street ferries deal was brought to light to-day by reference to the action of p a b widener and thomas dolnn who shared with uyan whitney and klkins the 358.oi!0 profits on the deal immediately after it had been exposed by the ifstiniiiiiy ol bi'jnly widener and dolan explain wmener and dolan prior to the discon certing rrady exposures under examina tion by william m ivins had for a year or two been on bad terms mid had severed all relation klkins the third of the philadelphia group was dead hut the moment that tie true history of the deai was exposed dolan and widener decided io get together and make mi explanation of the cheeks for 111,052.78 that each hnd received from isrady after the paper road had been sold to the metropolitan com pany at an enormous price this explanation was hint each of the lli.tki2.78 checks represented the payment of separate l jiiswife osls appointed organist at the penitentiary i(nm^qonths after or just before he withdrew thsbooif and apolglzed he testified that he paid her board before she was orfeanist but shej received 15 a mouth and board three year as organist he said he hiwl never p^u board for his daughter now nr&e years^ffd evelyn thaw sues hotel man for 50,000 libel declares she and e r thomas were not ejected from knickerbocker new vohk april 3 mrs florence evelyn s*ibit-thaw brought suit for 30,000 rl.'min?wfc^jaÂ±u^t jfljj b regan proprietor of tj|4 hoili ikukllfÃŸaujter to day for having caused to be publish m newspapers ai alleged libel m connectku with her vifeit to the grill room of tha hostelry e/rly tuesilay morning m com pany with e b thomas tie banker and horseman malinger regan s:im that he ordered thomas and mrs thaw to quit the hotel anil declared that he refused to serve j&em after he discovered the identity of tmt thiiw in her complaint mrs thaw adegm that she and mr thomas leftthe knickerbocker of their own accord and that manager he gan did not even suggest that they depart jarvis k iviott lost in blizzard in northwest searching parties seek young chi cago civil engineer st paul minn april 3 a lumber camp cook ole olson who left crookston minn with jarvis mott a Chicago civil engineer and electric railway porinotvr arrived m the former city to-day having lust his employer during the heavy snow storm that struck the north country tues day night olson wandered in hie trootft two days ami reached greenbusb in an exhausted condition koss was also n elpctrlc promoter and it is believcii he v,a looking i over that district f.i electric railway inter i ests of Chicago searching pa ties aiioait mailing are trying to hud him tie deep snow and density of the forest ills discoytfy a doubtful matter i police guard Taft as he makes two speeches chicago's presidential squad of detectives on watch Â„; for anarchistsi , , r j dodges talk of politics secretary addresses hamlttort club and immense gather Â« ing of church folk f spirited into the c(tv changes trains and passed through lines of bluecoatsr 7 ' on way to hotel secretary of war william h Taft slept in Chicago last night under the same police guard that ia given the president when he visits the city previously to going to his room he made two speeches under the protection of what hie police department calls the presiden tial squad of six detectives he wa3 brought into the city under police guatd in a mysterions fashion and foot and mounted officers lined h!s route from the la salle street station to the annex hotel where he stopped treated like heir apparent in every way mr tafr was treated as the heir apparent of president hoosevelt the elaborate police protection was the most conclusive evidence n * the character in which he .. . . . ilit7r^^j has visited Chicago frequently but ll come and son ; -< n ordinary aine^hi citizen 1'erhapd a united states secret service officer or two followed him in previous visits but that was all the presence of the police yesterday was not to prevent imijynnce from crowds the station at which the secretary was to arrive was a secret closely guarded from all except a few reporters and the police the train on which he came from columbus ran into the union station but he changed cars at washington heights and arrived at the lake shore station on lasalla street double line of police when the secretary arrived at the sta tion two lines of officers forty of them all told stretched from the train sheds to the door they presented their clubs as he was escorted between them sur rounding the motor car to take him to the hotel was a squad of mounted police and they saluted along the route to the hotel down la siiile street to jackson boulevard across jackson to michigan and thence to the hotel there were four officers at each crossing and two midway of each block the crowds hurrying homeward jnt 5 o'clock stopped to look at the police-j imen and wonder if it was a fire in charge of the pollice squad was the ischlcf's private secretary james markham r mr taft's two speeches might have been jconsidered those of an heir apparent an jheir apparent who is sure of his place they were safe sane and conservative claims the solid south ' the first was at the banquet of the chi cago baptist social union and dealt with the religious problems in the philippines at the second made at the appomattox day banquet of the hamilton club he was expected to talk about politics but he did not he only talked about twelve minutes what the secretary did in that time was to say some very complimentary things about alexander hamilton general grant and general lee and deliver the solid south to the republicans in the coming presidential campaign * on the tariff most of them the sonth evners are with us he said on expan sÂ§m most of them are with us on the itboscvelt policies most of them are with u and there he paused for thirty seconds 4i cheering flocks of silk tiles the reason the south did not go for ward as soon as the north did was be cause they allowed the ghosts of the past to govern their vnt.'s why they should have believed one tiling and voted another is one of the things i ilmi'i ninlevstnnd but i am hopeful there will soon u a change in that respc â– !," npon which words there was more cheering and the speaker sat down if mr Taft was guarded as the heir ap parent he was received in that fashion also Chicago has nol been so pllfc-hatted since mr uoobevell was here the last tluw as it was yesterday 1 was frock-eouted also for the event outside of toe reeeptiou committee of the commercial dull 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